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Overview of course; time scales; formation of matter by nucleosynthesis; introduction to geological (PDF - 6.1 MB) |
Roger Summons |
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| 2 |
How stars and planets form; Earth segregation; formation and composition of early atmosphere; characteristics of the habitable zone (PDF - 4.3 MB) |
Richard Binzel |
(PDF) |
| 3 |
Theories about the origin of life (PDF - 1.4 MB) |
Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 4 |
Evidence for antiquity of life (PDF - 1.4 MB) |
Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 5 |
Antiquity and origin of life (cont.)
Subsurface biosphere (PDF - 6.5 MB)
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Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 6 |
Redox chemistry; anaerobic metabolism, energy yields, deep subsurface biosphere (PDF) |
Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 7 |
Oxygenic photosynthesis; the rise of atmospheric O2 (PDF - 6.8 MB) |
Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 8 |
Techniques in geobiology 1: Fractionated isotopes (PDF) |
Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 9 |
Techniques in geobiology 2: More about fractionated isotopes (PDF) |
Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 10 |
Biogeochemical carbon cycle (PDF - 1.7 MB) |
Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 11 |
Long-term climate cycles 1: Faint young sun paradox; CO2 climate connection; snowball earth (PDF - 1.9 MB) |
Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 12 |
Evolution and radiation of animals (and plants???) |
Charles Marshall |
(PDF) |
| 13 |
Mass extinctions and re-radiation 1; PC-C boundary, P-T boundary (PDF - 2.5 MB) |
Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 14 |
Mass extinctions and re-radiation 2; K-T boundary, LPTM
Volcanism, carbon cycle perturbation or impact? (PDF - 6.2 MB)
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Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 15 |
Techniques in geobiology 3
Genomics
DNA, sequencing, trees, environmental shotguns
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Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 16 |
Techniques in geobiology 4
Lipid biomarkers; life's three domains; fossil and biogeochemical evidence for their presence and evolution through geological time
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Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 17 |
Sedimentary records of life and environment; fossils and their preservation |
Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 18 |
Sedimentary records of microbes and their environmental preferences; marine crenarchaeota and tex 86; AOM; anammox |
D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard |
(PDF) |
| 19 |
Microbially-dominated ecosystems: Extreme environments |
D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard |
(PDF) |
| 20 |
Fossil fuels: Fate of buried organic carbon; petroleum and natural gas occurrence and distribution (PDF - 3.7 MB)
Methane hydrates
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Roger Summons |
(PDF) |
| 21 |
Climate change: Mesozoic warming, cenozoic cooling; pleistocene glaciations (PDF - 5.5 MB) |
Ed Boyle |
(PDF) |
| 22 |
Holocene climate; abrupt climate change; anthropogenic forcing (PDF - 4.7 MB) |
Ed Boyle |
(PDF) |
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Student presentations |
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